Staff profile for Dr Russell Vickers

Position

Clinical Senior Lecturer

Job description

Oral Surgeon

Organisation

Oral Surgeon, Royal North Shore Hospital

Qualifications

PhD, MScMed, MDSc, BDS (Sydney University), FFPMANZCA, Dip Homeopathy, Dip Herbal Medicine

Education

Research interests

Clinical research - Orofacial pain, complementary therapies
Basic science – analytical chemistry, proteomics, mass spectrometry

Project

• Pain mechanisms in the trigeminal nerve
• Analgesic peptides

Grants/Awards

• ANZCA research grant 2006

Publications

• Vickers ER, Boocock H, Harris RD, Bradshaw J, Cooper M, Vickers P, Cannon P. (2006). Analysis of the acute postoperative pain experience following oral surgery: identification of 'unaffected', 'disabled' and 'depressed, anxious and disabled' patient clusters. Australian Dental Journal. 51:69-77.

• Vickers ER, Boocock H. (2005) Chronic orofacial pain is associated with psychological morbidity and negative personality changes: a comparison to the general population. Australian Dental Journal. 50:21-30.

• Hogg CJ, Vickers ER, Rogers TL. (2005)Determination of testosterone in saliva and blow of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 25;814:339-46.

• Cox S, Piatkov I, Vickers ER, Ma G. (2004) High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of arecoline in human saliva. Journal of Chromatography A. 1032:93-5.

• Vickers ER, Goebel C, Mather LE, Mackay L, Wells RJ. (2001) High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of bradykinin in saliva: a critical review and a new method. Journal of Chromatography B Biomed Sci Appl. 755:101-10.

• Vickers ER, Cousins MJ. (2000) Neuropathic orofacial pain part 1--prevalence and pathophysiology. Australian Endodontic Journal. 26:19-26.

• Vickers ER, Cousins MJ. (2000) Neuropathic orofacial pain. Part 2-Diagnostic procedures, treatment guidelines and case reports. Australian Endodontic Journal. 26:53-63.

• Parashos P, Vickers ER. Atypical odontalgia. Australian Endodontic Journal 26:121-3

• Goebel C, Mackay LG, Vickers ER, Mather LE. (2000) Determination of defensin HNP-1, HNP-2, and HNP-3 in human saliva by using LC/MS. Peptides. 21:757-65.

• Vickers ER, Cousins MJ, Woodhouse A. (1998) Pain description and severity of chronic orofacial pain conditions. Australian Dental Journal.43:403-9.

• Vickers ER, Cousins MJ, Walker S, Chisholm K. (1998) Analysis of 50 patients with atypical odontalgia. A preliminary report on pharmacological procedures for diagnosis and treatment. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology Endodontics. 85:24-32.

• Vickers ER, Marzbani N, Gerzina TM, McLean C, Punnia-Moorthy A, Mather L. (1997) Pharmacokinetics of EMLA cream 5% application to oral mucosa.
Anesthesia Progress.44:32-7.

• Vickers ER, Punnia-Moorthy A. (1993) Pulpal anesthesia from an application of a eutectic topical anesthetic. Quintessence International 24:547-51.

• Vickers ER, Punnia-Moorthy A. (1992) A clinical evaluation of three topical anaesthetic agents. Australian Dental Journal. 37:267-70.

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